Forbes Blasts Slate Critique of Harman Newsweek Purchase

Two bisons on their way to locking horns.

Here’s the thing about online journalism. When you rip someone apart, the person can easily strike back, with more rancor, more nastiness. It’s ‘What Comes Around Goes Around,’ but a more vicious version.

Forbes’s Jay Whitehead says Slate‘s media writer Jack Shafer is “a hypocrite of the highest journalistic water and knows virtually nothing about the mind of a media entrepreneur.” This is in response to Shafer’s giving new Newsweek owner Sidney Harman unsolicited advice, namely that he’s a “restless fat cat” who has no business purchasing Newsweek.

Whitehead doesn’t bother to link to Shafer’s piece – he could do him that favor while shredding him.

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